Difference

[waterfang]

Whats the difference between imagining and visualizing?

[leethal]

there's the answer to that question somewhere in here... I think imagining is a bit like daydreaming, like "i wish things were like this", and visualizing is like, if you felt a draft of hot air, you visualized it as a red smoke flowing through the draft, as in, heat... As in, you know it's there, but you can't see it, so you visualize it, and then "want" it to do something and visualize (imagine it going where you want it to, and in theory, it will go there) it.

I often imagine myself breathing in a green wave with the air, visualize the green wave turn white as it travels to my belly, and then send it to my arms, where i will afterwards try to form a psiball with it (it's still all i'm trying to do )

hope it helped. please seek better answers on the questions post.

[JediKaren]

imagining: to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).

visualizing: to recall or form mental images or pictures.

By dictionary.com sense, nothing really.

[waterfang]

leethal said:

there's the answer to that question somewhere in here... I think imagining is a bit like daydreaming, like "i wish things were like this", and visualizing is like, if you felt a draft of hot air, you visualized it as a red smoke flowing through the draft, as in, heat... As in, you know it's there, but you can't see it, so you visualize it, and then "want" it to do something and visualize (imagine it going where you want it to, and in theory, it will go there) it.

I often imagine myself breathing in a green wave with the air, visualize the green wave turn white as it travels to my belly, and then send it to my arms, where i will afterwards try to form a psiball with it (it's still all i'm trying to do )

hope it helped. please seek better answers on the questions post.

so.... Imaging is "wishing" something is there but t isn't. and visualizing is.... minpulating something that is there into something else?

[zbuksi]

Visualizing is to see picture you want to see. Imaging is seing picture and feelings connected to it. It is used in power reading, in this case when visualizing you don't think and you use your right side of brain- it is side of brain used for ''daydreaming'' and it releases creative side of our personality, it uses alot of imagination and colors. When you are happy it works better, so next time try to call a memory of one really happy and positive feeling you expirienced, then try to focus and keep that feeling when visualizing. You should have better visualization and better results

-this is just my opinion and it works for me, so I can't guarantee you will have good results- but it will make you feel good once you menage to call back good feelings

Have fun ;D

[Mr.Experiment]

Zbuksi, the Right side of the brain is the Creative side.
If your a lefty you use this side of the brain, and you do not use the other half of the brain. I don't know where you heard all that about daydreaming comming from the half of the brain you dont use because lefties use that side of the brain.

~Jano

[zbuksi]

Your absolutely right. The right side of brain IS used in creativity. Left for thinking. I didn't say anything about motoric posibilyties. The the center for movements in right side of brain moves left side of body, and center in left moves right side of body- that is true, and if you are lefty your motoric area in right side of brain is dominant; however it is not connected with other area of brain that is used for imagination in right side or with part for thinking that is in left side of brain. We dont use entire brain, we use only 5% and those 5% are divided in left and right side. The tests resulted with higher brain activity in right side of brain in childhood beacose we use our imagination more than logic thinking. And in adults the left side of brain is used more, as we are to busy to use imagination beacose we have too much to wory. And that stil don't have anything to do with motoric posibilities of human being. And tose results with other tests lead to conclusion that that part which is more active when imaging is indeed used for imagination and creativity. Left is used for logic and following rules we learned. But both sides can store memories, and it is proven that if you learn through games you learn better beacose you don't have to check on rules that lowers our creativity and slow us down (for example- reading: when you read you unconciously spell sentences; if you use right side of brain and just look on the sentences with predifined technique you will read faster). I know that for a fact beacose I can read book with 200 pages in 20minutes.

[neopsychic]

200 pages in 20 minutes !! Wow, it take me like 5-7 hours to get through that much. From a writing postion; I wonder how that effects professional writers. I would guess that they read slow, helps them learn how to spell, nuiances of certain words, and gives a more deep thought process on what it take to write. On the other hand being able to read a lot of books can provide a lot of experience... and that's just hard to beat in it self.

[Mr.Experiment]

People can read a whole book in minutes.
Autism can cause this it is a disease. Wierd that someone who suffers from this cant even get dressed by themselves and aren't so social but can remember everything and never forget.
Called a Disease, seems like an advancedment.

More and more people get it now then before.

~Jano

[zbuksi]

Autism is using right side more then left, placing imagination dominant over logic. That keeps them locked in their own inaginary world, and not giving them chance to think logicaly or develop motoric abilities as a lack of using real world over imaginary. It's nothing more then domination of a right side of brain, their logic however is twisted and goes from briliant calculations to even not be able to speak. They just use diferent state of mind, they are not dumb or sick. We call it sick beacose we are not able to understand them- and maybe they are just next little step to develop higher level of exsistance.